John Taylor recently beat the world record for fastest guitarist. The song requested was Flight Of The Bumblebee. He succeeded at an amazing speed of 600 BPM. Because of how fast it is, it sounds like shit, but it's still amazing he can play that fast.
He plays that long guitar so that he can play a song in way that it doesn't sound like a song anymore. My mind is blown.
it was the best of times
it was the blurst of times
HardcoreGamer4Ever
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Aug 19 2011 01:31 pm
Well, there's this guy on the fastest guitarist page on RecordSetter.com claiming he once played at 800 BPM and that he's going to try it again. However, this was 9 days ago. I hope it happens, though.
Thats nothing, I heard that there was this band called Crash and the Boys who played a set in six seconds.
Blackout
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Aug 19 2011 11:17 pm
He should have done it without distortion.
King
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Aug 20 2011 02:49 pm
The distortion ruins it for me, I would want to hear it played cleanly
Blackout
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Aug 21 2011 02:22 am
Plus by it's nature distortion carries longer than a clean note so it's easier to mask fuck ups, not ragging on the dudes skills because he's obviously fast, but clean or even on an acoustic would have been doubly as impressive.
King
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Aug 21 2011 11:28 am
I tell ya what would be the absolute craziest would be on an amplified 12 string acoustic at 800bpm
Greg the White
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Aug 21 2011 06:25 pm
Weird. It sounds inconsistent tempo-wise. I think the way they set up the metronome is throwing me off.
So here's to you Mrs. Robinson. People love you more- oh, nevermind.
firebird51
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Sep 12 2011 12:17 am
I wasn't impressed, I see stuff like that on a daily basis.
On a side note, I lol'd at the guy who, at around 5:56, started screaming,
" YEEEEAAAAHHH!!!!!"
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